And what I said to them is the same thing I said to Graham and Reilly, which is, if they can front-load some of the analysis of what went wrong and how you would solve what has happened and what can happen, and you can do that more quickly than six months, then let me know.

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The Greek debt load, even if it is 120% debt-to-GDP, is way too high for a country that really is going through an austerity program to be able to grow their way out.

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So Samoa Air will let a few kilos slide, but the airline is unlikely to provide a refund if passengers roll up to the tarmac with a lighter load.

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DJs can use the XDJ-AERO to control wireless devices remotely so they can browse tracks and load them directly to their decks even if the device is not in their hands.

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Front-loaded funds put less money to work right away because of a front-end commission of 8% or so, but if the fund is well managed, it is a better investment than a no-load fund that underperforms.

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Since a broker, if one is involved, receives a fee from the mutual fund instead of charging a load, this could be causing average fees to rise (loads are not included in most expense ratios).

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One feature you're not getting with this unit -- besides the inability to record OTA programming -- is DRM support, so if you want to load up your PlaysForSure- or FairPlay-protected tracks, you'll need to strip out the copy protection with one of those handy pieces of software first (not that we'd ever encourage that sort of behavior, of course).

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The second thing is: If you thought Chris and Ansel were a confederacy of dunces, get a load of Frank (Frank Hvam) and his friend Casper (Casper Christensen), the least great Danes ever whelped.

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There is no load, but Scott Page, comanager of the fund, says there is a sliding fee if you redeem your shares within two years of purchase.

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If more horsepower is needed, then the user can quickly switch into the main operating system, which Cloud continues to load in the background.

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One important thing for consumers to ask when considering Surface is whether they want to load any of the current Windows desktop apps they own today or if they will want to buy and install new Windows desktop apps in the future.

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